People: Spats & Raps

Governor Charles Edison of New Jersey took a look at a one-month
grocery bill for his "Little White House" at Sea Girt, then ordered an
investigation of his quartermaster general's housekeeping operations.
Items, in a month, for 20 people: $172 for soda water; averages of
$30.23 a day for meat, $22.36 for poultry, $7.83 for lobster, $7.23 for
caviar; eleven pounds of butter a day, nine dozen eggs a day. "I would
say that was enough eggs," figured the Governor, "for a daily Easter
egg roll on the Sea Girt lawn. . . ."...